5/17/2023 0 Comments Insurmountable sentence![]() ![]() Ireland’s sexual assault and murder,” the petition said. “At a new trial today, a jury would not convict Mr. And a forensic odontologist concluded that an injury on her left breast wasn’t a bitemark as previously believed, the petition said. But what’s new, according to the petition, is that a “Jimmy Z” brand T-shirt found near Ireland and soaked with her blood belonged to the same unknown man - and not to one of the three men as prosecutors claimed.Īdditionally, the petition said, a new tire tread analysis concluded that Schweitzer’s Volkswagen Beetle car didn’t leave the tire marks at either location where Ireland and her bicycle were found. It was previously known that DNA evidence in the case belonged to an unknown man and that all three of the convicted men were excluded as the source. ![]() Some intentional and some unintentional.” And when that happens, mistakes are made. … There was insurmountable pressure to solve this case. “The parents, understandably, were becoming more and more infuriated. “Whenever you have a white, female victim … it gets a lot more attention than people of color and Native Hawaiians,” said Kenneth Lawson, co-director of the Hawaii Innocence Project. The murder of the blond-haired, blue-eyed visitor from Virginia gained national attention and remained unsolved for years, putting intense pressure on police to find the killer. The mangled bicycle she had been riding was found several miles away and it appeared a vehicle ran into her. She was sexually assaulted and beaten, and later died at Hilo hospital. On Christmas Eve in 1991, Dana Ireland, 23, was found barely alive in the bushes along a fishing trail in Puna, a remote Big Island district. HONOLULU (AP) - A petition filed Monday outlining new evidence in one of Hawaii’s biggest murder cases asks a judge to release a Native Hawaiian man who has spent more than 20 years in prison for the sexual assault, kidnapping and murder of a white woman on the Big Island. ![]()
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